{"id":513644,"date":"2022-11-21T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scientists-dont-want-to-count-leap-seconds-so-theyre-going-away\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T22:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:27:23","slug":"scientists-dont-want-to-count-leap-seconds-so-theyre-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scientists-dont-want-to-count-leap-seconds-so-theyre-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scientists Don\u2019t Want to Count Leap Seconds, so They\u2019re Going Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af2d7c692a28\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af2d7c692a28\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scientists-dont-want-to-count-leap-seconds-so-theyre-going-away\/#%E2%80%9CScientists_Dont_Want_to_Count_Leap_Seconds_so_Theyre_Going_Away%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Scientists Don\u2019t Want to Count Leap Seconds, so They\u2019re Going Away&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CScientists_Dont_Want_to_Count_Leap_Seconds_so_Theyre_Going_Away%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Scientists Don\u2019t Want to Count Leap Seconds, so They\u2019re Going Away&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-782105\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1156181878.png?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/abstract-clock-technology-1156181878\">POR666 \/ Shutterstock<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If your dog barked at the moon the other day or you saw two very similar cats walk by one after the other, it probably had something to do with the scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing of leap seconds. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>A global consortium of scientists and government officials voted Friday to stop turning the tiny proverbial knob that tracks leap seconds, those minute time adjustment sometimes inserted to account for our planet\u2019s uneven rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Because we don\u2019t have Superman available to spin the planet to our liking, the Earth sometimes shifts and wobbles like a drunk guy doing a field sobriety test outside his car. This minor fluctuation in symmetry just barely throws off the speed of the Earth\u2019s rotation enough such that days are a tad longer than what we have on the books.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, the leap second came into existence, as a way to balance out the\u00a0Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) roughly every 21 months. This is not a change anyone would have felt necessarily (except maybe\u00a0Dr. Manhattan), but what it did do is stick in the craw of tech companies, since the inconsistent coordination confused coding that was created with an assumption of precise timekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>The issues racked up. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> crashed briefly in 2012 due to a leap second, Cloudfare blamed the poor leap second for its DNS going down in 2017 on New Year\u2019s Day, and recently Meta <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.fb.com\/2022\/07\/25\/production-engineering\/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past\/\">published an article<\/a> calling for leap seconds to be given the heave-ho.<\/p>\n<p>The International Bureau of Weights and Measures seems to have agreed at their probably catered meeting in Versailles, France. Leap seconds have been notified that between 2035 until at least 2135 (on a Wednesday, maybe), UTC will not account for leap seconds, the idea being that by then scientists will have found a better way to fix the discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, an official timekeeping organization just basically said, \u201cWe\u2019ll deal with that later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><small>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/19\/science\/time-leap-second-bipm.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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